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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

The Easter at Yauatcha

Yauatcha, the oriental cuisine restaurant at Quest, has
the distinction of city’s first Michelin-starred restaurant. The young player
in Kolkata’s oriental cuisine scene has also won the Best Oriental Cuisine restaurant
award in fine dine category at Times Food Guide Awards 2015. The Easter plans
at this fine dining stop are in full swing. It will be laying out a set Easter day
lunch and there will be Easter eggs to choose from. Here’s a sneak peek.

Starting with the Easter eggs. There are two- Medium Egg
with 5 chocolate inserts and Large Egg with 8 chocolate inserts (at Rs 175 and
300 plus taxes respectively).

Medium Egg with 5 chocolate inserts

Large Egg with 8 chocolate inserts

The Easter lunch menu is a compact five course gourmet
affair with handpicked dishes to make it a really special experience. Spread
out over soup, dim sum, staple, main course and dessert, evenly for the
vegetarian and non-vegetarian, it’s a choice of one option in each leg. It’s
flagged off with soup with a choice of one from Shredded Lamb Soup and Asian Green
soup. Soup over, move on to dim sum where you can choose one from Prawn Chive,
Prawn Toast, Veg Chive and Veg Crystal Dumpling. The staple offers you Egg Fried
Rice, Spicy Veg Fried Rice and Udon Noodle with main course options Kung Pao
Chicken, Chicken Szechwan Peppercorn, Stir Fry Bean and Kung Pao Tofu for
company. You shall be served a full portion in soup and dim sum and a half
portion of staple and main. Round it off with one sorbet or ice cream. To help
you navigate skillfully here’s the chef’s pick: Asian Green Soup, Prawn Chive,
Veg Crystal Dumpling and Kung Pao Tofu. It comes at Rs 1500 plus taxes and will
be served on the Easter day, 5th April, from 12 noon to 4 pm.

Yauatcha
has just launched a high tea menu as well. It’s a set menu for one person with choice
of one dim sum or dessert along with a pot
of Jasmine green tea
which is a specialty here. It’s a good idea to try the dim sum as it happens to
be their forte and the range is endless. In dim sum on the menu its one choice
from Vegetable Sticky Rice in Lotus Leaf, Baked Vegetarian Chicken Puff, Sticky
Rice in Lotus Leaf, Chicken Char Sui Bun and Baked Chicken Puff. For those who
would like to go for the dessert, pick one from Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse, Assorted
Macaroons, Raspberry Delice and Religieuse Jaffa Cake. At Rs 495 all inclusive
and served 4 pm to 7 pm everyday.

Apart from the high tea, there’s a set five course
lunch menu for one person that has been started recently. It comes at Rs 850
all inclusive. But let’s park it for another day, as it’s already a little too
much for the gastronome.